Here’s a fast and easy project you can do with left overs from the painted foil backgrounds that you’ve made. Haven’t made any yet? Well go ahead…here are the instructions…I’ll wait!
Cut out pieces of painted foil to use in your pin. Cut one larger one that will be the background, and as many smaller pieces […]
Make Art Monday!
Remember the painted foil backgrounds from last week? Well here’s something a bit different that you can do with them:
Tags: Collage, Mixed Media, paper arts, Wearable Art
Head on over to Tammy’s Jewelry & Beading blog to see our July edition of the Artist Showcase!
Tags: Art Communities, artist-showcase, Mixed Media, tutorials
Strawberry Moon
I just can’t seem to work on the current month…I have to think about what the previous month was like in order to really come up with a beaded journal page that I like. So here’s my journal page for July, but it features the moon for June. You can find links to more […]
Spiritus Vocis
Artist: Karen Campbell
Location: Thornton, CO
Website & Blog:
Karen’s Altered Dreamz blog
Webshots photo album
Lizard Lair
How do you describe your work, Karen?
When I first started doing altered books and mixed media work everything had to have a theme. I did Egyptian … I dabbled with vintage themes … I did ocean/beach type themes. I couldn’t get […]
Tell me this doesn’t look like a lot of fun:
A Day at the Beach
Nina Katchadourian writes:
The Sorted Books project began in 1993 years ago and is ongoing. The project has taken place in many different places over the years, ranging form private homes to specialized public book collections. The process is the same in […]
Jen Stark’s paper constructions are wonderful! Visit her site when you’ve got plenty of time, because I know you will quickly become as mesmerized as I did by the beauty and grace of her work. The site is arranged really well for browsing through her pieces…overall, it’s just a delight!
Tags: paper-art
Plain old aluminum foil makes a wonderful background for collage, and also can be a nice accent to add to a larger piece, especially when the foil is painted. There are only a couple of tricks to making paint work with foil, and as long as those points are observed, your experiments with these techniques […]
Make Art Monday!
I’ve been spending some time painting some foil backgrounds to use. The scans and photographs don’t really capture the full effect of the metallic surface just below the thin washes of acrylic paint. These are really a lot of fun to paint and to use in your work. Tomorrow, I’ll share what you […]
Do not throw ANYTHING out!
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